DP wrote:I know that UK has excessive security cameras in their country to the point where everyone screams invasion of privacy. I would be for one ok with having some installed around our town, at some key intersections, if it could mean saving an innocent life like this kid's, especially during an amber alert!

It just makes me mad thinking why this was not a preventable crime and loss of life!!

I agree with you. Also we all need to keep an eye out on things. If they dont look right call the police and take some pictures just incase.

A few final thoughts. Our society has desensitized itself from the reality that there are evil/bad people who will do harm to you and your loved ones. Not for some cause that can be justified but by their sheer will/pleasure to do harm to others. They lurk all around us. Some we may even know. There are depraved sickos out there so we must stay vigilant.

We must care for the innocent those that can not defend themselves. We as men and women can not afford to look the other way any longer. We need to go back to our inherited instincts of protecting not only our families but care enough to help or protect those that may be in danger. Easy enough to say that they hope they do this or that to this pathetic killer when typing behind our key boards. But how many of us will try to help those in danger when the opportunity arises?

I am not in any way suggesting that we become vigilantes. But we need to step up to the plate when called upon. There were brave men and women during the the Aurora theater attack that protected others and paid the ultimate price. We can no longer afford to look the other way and say it isn't my problem. Police can not be everywhere all of the time. So we can not lay these tragedies at their feet. I for one congratulate the brave officers who entered the theater in search of Holmes.

What we can do when we see or even suspect a crime is immediately call 911, try to observe as many details as we can as to the person or persons that are committing the crime, if need be get involved if a woman, children, the elderly and the disabled are being victimized. As men it is our responsibility to try and protect/defend those that need our help. Granted the outcome may not be good for us. But until we take some sort of action these type of crimes will continue to be with us The more we look away the more these sickos become embolden.

Finally I for one am sick and tired of this do good judicial systems that goes to the nth degree to protect criminals especially habitual criminals. We need to use our voting right to rid judges that sympathize so much with criminals. At times it seems that justices have lost sight of who the victims are. And if these justices are appointed by politicians then vote out of office those elected officials. Until we call for accountability monsters such as Holmes and the beast that committed this crime will continue to mock our broken down justice system.

We need to be smart from now on in order to reverse this trend.

May God Bless Jessica and all the victims that have died at the hands of these blood thirsty killers.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I know with cases like this, proverbially keeping your head on swivel is good, but was anybody else struck by how very East German the suggestion of watching your coworkers, friends, and family is? Tre' Stasi.

It's deeply creepy to think that somewhere out there and potentially still in the city there's somebody willing to kill and potentially dismember a child. I'm not sure it actually gets lower than that. But then Colorado does seem to have more than it's fair share of murderous sickos for some reason. Perhaps it's the altitude.

My heart goes out to her family, friends, and everybody who volunteered in the search.

I'm so sad for this little girl, the whole story reminds me so much of the movie "The Lovely Bones" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HphVfIswoYE. Jessica is at peace now, safe and free. It is the rest of us that carry the burden of her horrific death, may we too find peace, soon, by finding the sick person that stole this child away from our world. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in pain over this, especially her family and friends.

domino wrote:Revenge is not justice. Justice is making sure that jurors do not have preconceived notions of guilt and what the punishment should be. Justice is a fair trial and the rights of the accused.

Justice is what makes our country civilized. Revenge is the rule of barbarians.

Agree. However, as logical and fair human beings, "revenge" and "instant justice" and "incineration" seem to be very logical and reasonable options for this barbaric crime committed by this predator.

MansonMan wrote:Not unthinkable when you consider the size of Denver and its suburbs. Might as well be living in other slums known as Chicago or Los Angeles. I can't believe any family would live in a big city, let alone let their children walk a block. It's also not unthinkable when you consider that America allows Internet pornography and violent movies and video games. Dumb Americans.

Joe you're absolutely right. We have dumb political leaders in congress who will never do anything to filter the amount of available pornography on the internet. They block legislation in the name of free speech even though they know that its accessible for children and teenagers. I think people should have to register under a certain number every 30 days that they can only get if they're over the age of 18. In this case, we'd know who's into what and we could find these sick you-know-whats. Americans are dumb for allowing this. This filth gets into peoples minds and they have no further outlet other than to get the real thing.

Polluting the environment with balloons is not going to help Jessica or help us find her killer, neither will the apparent wholesale suspension of civil liberties in Westminster -- Westword reports that "hundreds of homes and vehicles" have been searched, presumably without benefit of warrants. I did not expect to see much substance or fact in the DP, and sure enough you are way more interested in describing some flake's balloon sendoff than reporting how the investigation is being conducted, or letting slip that police are engaged in mass-searches.

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Just sick, you mean to tell me that we have a person or persons in Colorado that would abduct a little girl, then dismember her body and just discard her like trash? What type of monster does something like that? We need to do something about our society, because everything about common decency and respect for the living has vanished! I hope they find this psychopath.

"Americans will always do the right thing-after they have exhausted all the alternatives"

"The focus has changed from the search for Jessica to a mission of justice for Jessica," "There is a predator at large in our community," the chief said.

And when captured, and made to answer for this despicable crime against a child, I doubt this depraved, vile and reprehensible predator will see the true justice this crime deserves. One only needs to look at the lenient hand wringing liberal justice system more focused on reform than punishment!

obama=incomplete!

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson

hecternamerodriguez wrote:Cops as usual are worthless. Seven days late and a dollar short. Now their bravado is being raised...when that is the last thing these low level humans need to have happen.

How predictable. Well, there's always at least one of lifes pathetic losers who simply can't resist the opportunity to exhibit their own lack of intelligence and their cowardice under the anonymity of a keyboard in a public forum.

Usually the plumbing fixtures making these types of comments have a 'history' with law enforcement and they're pissed off because they lack the intellectualcapacity to learn anything from the experience. Thus, given their complete lack of intellect and social skills, the idiots just continue to do and say ignorant and stupid S#!+.

That or they just revel in 'getting off' with a keyboard. Right Loser?

Here is a hard truth abut this crime: it could take years to find the perpetrator. As difficult as it is for us to accept it is possible to "get away" with something like this. Some of the longest running murder cases involve perpetrators who move from area to area, kill strangers, consciously avoid patterns and don't kill frequently. This is why the true psychopaths can elude police for decades.

While this may be hard to accept for the people demanding instant justice at TV speeds it is a cold reality. This murderer will not be captured by emotion and internet outrage but rather by dogged police work.

All I seem to read here is 'vengeance for Jessica' rather than "Justice for Jessica" Better ring? No, we are a vengefl society and we seem to want to punish more than we want so solve the problems of our society. . . why we have the highest incarceration rate of any country, including China, and one of the last industrialized countries that still uses capital punishment.

Vengeance should be reserved for families of victims. If anything happened to one of my daughters, I would want to exact proper vengeance because my loss is personal. Not that Jessica's fate isn't personal to many of us,but we have to act like a rational society and deal with criminals in a way that exacts punishment and deterents in the proper balance.

toohip wrote:All I seem to read here is 'vengeance for Jessica' rather than "Justice for Jessica" Better ring? No, we are a vengefl society and we seem to want to punish more than we want so solve the problems of our society. . . why we have the highest incarceration rate of any country, including China, and one of the last industrialized countries that still uses capital punishment.

Vengeance should be reserved for families of victims. If anything happened to one of my daughters, I would want to exact proper vengeance because my loss is personal. Not that Jessica's fate isn't personal to many of us,but we have to act like a rational society and deal with criminals in a way that exacts punishment and deterents in the proper balance.

I am confused by your post, are you saying if it was your family then the perpetrator should be swiftly dealt with via death or severe punishment, but if it is not your family then the perpetrator should be dealt with via love, compassion and understanding?

In my opinion, regardless of who the family of the victim is, the perpetrator should be dealt with severely and swiftly. Anyone who would murder and dismember an innocent child does not deserve to be part of society and should be removed from this earth.

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